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The 2015–16 Rugby-Bundesliga is the 45th edition of this competition and the 96th edition of the German rugby union championship. In the Rugby-Bundesliga, sixteen teams play in two regional divisions, followed by play-offs consisting of the top two teams in each division. The regular season started on 29 August 2015 and will finish on 1 May 2016, followed by the semi-finals and the championship final, the latter scheduled for 21 May 2016. The season will be interrupted by a winter break from early November to early March. The defending champions are Heidelberger RK who defeated TV Pforzheim 53–27 in the 2015 final to take out its twelfth championship and sixth in a row. The club thereby also equaled a championship record, becoming the second club after TSV Victoria Linden to win six consecutive titles.〔(Heidelberger RK holt sich den sechsten Meistertitel in Folge ) totalrugby.ce, published: 16 May 2015, accessed: 13 September 2015〕 The modus and size of the league had been altered from the 2014–15 season, with the number of clubs reduced from, nominally, 24 to 16. ==Overview== }} The Rugby-Bundesliga, which had been playing with 21 clubs in 2014–15, three less than the nominal strength of 24, was reduced to 16 clubs for 2015–16. Compare to the previous season, where the league played a first round of four regional groups followed by a second round with two regional groups of eight and play-offs consisting of twelve teams the 2015–16 season saw a reduction to just tow regional groups of eight teams each.〔(Rugby-Bundesliga startet am Wochenende in ihre 45. Saison - Spielmodus erneut reformiert ) totalrugby.de, published: 27 August 2015, accessed: 12 September 2015〕〔(Reformierte Rugby-Bundesliga: Die Jagd ums Ei wird neu eröffnet ) ''Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung'', published: 28 August 2015, accessed: 14 September 2015〕 In the 2015–16 Bundesliga each team plays the other seven in their division twice, home and away, during the regular season. No games will be played between clubs from opposite divisions during this phase. The regular season will be followed by play-offs in which the winner of the south-west division plays the runners-up of the north-east and the winner of the north-east the runners-up of the south-west division. The two semi-final winners then contest the German championship final, scheduled for 21 May 2016.〔 The remaining twelve teams enter the DRV-Pokal, whereby the clubs placed third and fourth receive a bye for the first round. The last placed team in each division will be automatically relegated to the 2. Rugby-Bundesliga. The second-last team in each division has to play the 2. Bundesliga semi-final losers for a place in the 2016–17 Rugby-Bundesliga.〔 Compare to the 2014–15 season no team was promoted to the Bundesliga but five teams relegated from the league, TSV Victoria Linden, SG Siemensstadt/Grizzlies, Berliner SV 92 Rugby, RC Aachen and Heidelberger TV.〔(Archiv 2014-15 ) rugbyweb.de, accessed: 13 September 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015–16 Rugby-Bundesliga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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